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In her role as interim dean of the Honors College at Montgomery College, Fiona brings together all Honors College programs under a single umbrella: Early College Honors, Macklin Business Institute, Montgomery Scholars, Phi Theta Kappa International College Honors Society, Renaissance Scholars, Scholars Circle, and STEM Scholars.

Fiona started her career in higher education more than twenty years ago. Since joining the Montgomery College community six years ago, she has served as interim Campus Dean of Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus; led the department of English Language for Academic Purposes, Communication Studies, and Linguistics; and directed the Paul Peck Humanities Institute. She previously served as Assistant Provost at the University of Baltimore, and prior to that as Associate Professor and Vice Chair at the California State University, Sacramento, where she taught undergraduate composition and writing-in-the-disciplines courses as well as graduate courses in the theory and practice of composition, rhetoric, second language reading and writing, and pedagogy.

A first-generation college student and immigrant to the United States, Fiona earned her A.A. in English from Antelope Valley Community College; her B.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara; and her M.A. and her Ph.D., with distinction, in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University. Based on her own experiences, Dean Glade believes passionately in the capacity of higher education to be transformative, and she is proud to join students, faculty, and staff at MC where her highest priority is to contribute to the college’s commitment to academic excellence and lifelong learning, and to support students’ achievement of the goals they have set for their own education pathways.

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